PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Merrill Rotter
AU  - David Preven
TI  - Commentary: General Residency Training—the First Forensic Stage
DP  - 2005 Sep 01
TA  - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
PG  - 324--327
VI  - 33
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jaapl.org/content/33/3/324.short
4100  - http://jaapl.org/content/33/3/324.full
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law2005 Sep 01; 33
AB  - Training in Forensic Psychiatry, as described by Dr. Pinals, requires the gaining of knowledge, expertise, and confidence as part of a process of professional transformation and identification with a new psychiatric role. Training in General Psychiatry does, however, include placing the resident in situations and roles that are either formally forensic in nature, or at least, forensic-like. We will argue that these experiences from general training can be used by forensic supervisors to help ease the resident into the forensic role by building on the resident's existing expertise and making the forensic environment less foreign.